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Dr. Gleason is trained as a pediatrician and child and adolescent psychiatrist and has special interests in early childhood mental health and the integration of mental health services into primary care. She trained at Brown University in a triple board residency and completed an infant mental health fellowship at Tulane, where she worked for nearly 2 decades. She is currently academic division chief at Eastern Virginia Medical School in the US and Vice Chief of Mental Health at Children’s Hospital of The King’s Daughters. She is particularly interested in early identification of children at risk for mental health problems and integrating mental health into non-mental health settings. She led the development of practice guidelines for a task force in the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and the recently published American Academy of Pediatrics guidelines. She is honored to sit on the boards of Zero to Three and the National Association of Child Psychiatry Access Programs.